HEADS UP: Merging projects/bhyve_svm to HEAD

[Matthew Grooms]

Fantastic news! Greatly appreciated.

-Matthew

On Oct 15, 2014 10:00 PM, Anish Gupta <akgupt3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all, 
>
> The projects/bhyve_svm branch is ready to be merged to HEAD. 
>
> This branch contains patches to bhyve to enable it to work on AMD 
> processors with SVM/AMD-V hardware extensions[1]. Pretty much any AMD 
> processor since 2010 will have the features required by bhyve. 
>
> bhyve on AMD supports (almost) all the features available with Intel 
> [2]. All guest OSes supported on Intel are supported on AMD. All the 
> bhyve-related utilities function similarly on both Intel and AMD 
> platforms [3]. 
>
> The patch against HEAD revision 273066 is available for review and testing: 
> https://people.freebsd.org/~neel/bhyve/bhyve_svm.diff [Neel’s web directory] 
>
> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_virtualization 
> [2]: bhyve doesn't support PCI passthru on AMD at this time 
> [3]: bhyvectl has grown some processor-specific options 
>
> Thanks and regards, 
> Peter, Neel & Anish[akgupt3 at gmail.com] 
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